What Tet and Gandalf did in the war thread (Nostalgia)

[Tet]

who remembers the Truprint envelopes you used to get in magazines, where you sent off your camera film and got your pics back in a fortnight?

I remember them being a huge improvement. Prior to that, you used to have a turnaround time of a couple of months.

[Noodle]

Fuckin' Gogos!

I still only need Speedy to finish my collection.

This was literally my introduction to video games:

[Jim]

Same, but with the first Mega Drive at a mates house.



Though I soon got my hands on a Master System I, too:

[Jobdone]

First game I ever remember playing, Ecco the Dolphin



It would've been Sonic 1, but my brother managed to break the cartridge before I was old enough to use a controller.

[Jim]

Echo?

[Jobdone]

The speed on that mate, replied before I managed to edit

[Jim]

so quick I didn't even spell it right

[Killing_time]

[Tet]

You're all so young! This was my introduction to video games.

[Killing_time]

My introduction was Paper Boy on i think the Commodore 64

[Davros]

My first intro to video games was the Atari 2600!

[Jim]

Wait a sec, I do remember playing Space Harrier on an Atari when I was really wee...

[Jobdone]

Thought that looked familiar, got a sega version at some point.

That game was awesome.

[Matty_the_Emo_Slayer]

I can't be sure the first sega game I played was. Probably the Sonic/Sonic 2/Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine compendium.

Ecco The Dolphin, Mortal Kombat I and II, Madden Football '92, Batman Returns, Alien 3, Dynamite Heady and Mega-Lo-Mania (THE most underrated Sega game ever) were all staples in my granny's house in those days as well.

My first console of my own was the Playstation though. Christmas '95 with Ridge Racer, Wipeout, FIFA '96 and Worms. Fuck knows how ma could afford all that back then (£300 was a lot of money to us back then) and my first proper bike too. Still my favourite christmas ever.

[Smerphy]

Anyone read these as kids?